With businesses starting to boycott the NRA, it’s time for you to check the What Business Thinks app so you spend your money where your values are.

Last year, I introduced What Business Thinks, a database I created that has information about over 5,000 businesses and their stances on various hot topic issues, everything from pure politics, to guns, to LGBT stuff, to climate change, and more. With the Left escalating its insane attacks against the NRA, I’ve spent the morning updating the app with companies that are refusing to do business with the NRA (First National Bank of Omaha) or that are cutting out benefits once extended to NRA members (Hertz and Enterprise). It therefore think it’s time for people to bookmark the website on their computers or smart phones so that they can make sure they’re doing business with companies that don’t hate them and everything they stand for.

As I said last year when I started collecting information for the database, we’re living in a unique time. It used to be that customers might boycott a business. Now, we have businesses boycotting customers. Isn’t it time you know whether a business hates you and your values before you spend your money there?

Incidentally, I present the information in the database evenhandedly. Your Progressive friends might also find it useful so that they don’t have to give their money to companies that don’t reflect their values. The fact is that, with everything politicized today, companies are either aching to take sides (especially those with college-educated upper management) or are being forced to take sides whether they want to or not. In a properly functioning marketplace, that information should be readily available to all consumers.

One more thing. I built this app myself and I know it’s unsophisticated. Currently, you can search only by business name. My dream is for you to be able to search by issue as well. Having said that, some issues, such as “Pure Politics” have so many thousands of names in them that it wouldn’t help you much to scroll through the list. Other issues, though, such as “Guns” aren’t too full yet and I know many of you would like to have an oversight. That will come with time, if the app starts turning a profit from the ads on the link in the first paragraph.

UPDATE: Because the NRA boycott is a fast growing movement, I’m making available the Google Sheets page detailing which companies are participating in boycotts of the NRA or are otherwise opposed to the Second Amendment.

I am returning to my liberal Montana hometown in April (to take Dad to
doctors’ appointments), but I won’t patronize corporate businesses. I switched from Enterprise to Hertz before Hertz announced its bigotry. However, the Hertz car rental is locally owned, so I’ll stick with that and receive the over-50 discount. My lodging is a B&B, so that’s OK. I also never used any NRA discount with my membership, so let the progressive bigots reveal themselves. If banks want to end loans to gun manufacturers, peer lending could take their place. I joined the NRA a few years ago to protest Obama, and will keep my membership. There’s safety in numbers when the fascists are biting at our asses.

ymarsakar

Consider taking Frontsight’s tactical marksmanship course. Very high quality reviews, from the circles I am close to.

I prefer Target Focus Training though. More stealthy…

Look up “Frontsight color code awareness”. It has some pretty good info and gives a preview of what their info is like.

ymarsakar

Somebody mentioned using your app and linking it at NeoNeocon’s blog. I think it may have been Aesop.

The Gentle Grizzly

I can’t find your app in the Google store.

SDN

There’s also the fact that Leftists have a long track record of physically harming businesses and people they dislike. So far, we haven’t developed a “Sons of Liberty” counter.

RobertM

Thank you so much for putting this together, Book!

I’ve passed it on to everyone I know.

UCSPanther

Wanna bet that some of those companies will come crawling back after the heat is off? Walmart claimed that they were no longer going to sell semi-auto rifles after the Sandy Hook murders, but they started selling them again after some time passed…

Those companies that do, we rub it in their faces…

PaidinRubles

I’ve used Budget for car rental when I travel pretty exclusively for about the last decade. I’m not a really frequent traveler anymore but I probably rent a car for 12-20 days a year.

I sent them a message letting them know that not only will I not be using their services any longer, but that it also caused me to join the NRA. I doubt that my message will ever get past whatever person opens it but was still fun to send 🙂

UCSPanther

If enough people send similar messages to yours’, Budget will have to get the message. Virtue signalling must have consequences.

PaidinRubles

My thoughts and hopes exactly. We’ve let the Left be the predominate users of the boycott as a political tool. It’s time to get a little dirty and hope we can get things dialed back.

Gassius Maximus

Is there some way to find out how many new memberships the NRA and other gun rights groups are getting as a response to this stupidity? I renewed my membership which was motivated by these insane attacks.

Faragon

America is, it would seem, a country that doesn’t much appreciate boycotts. In the last month the NRA has seen 250,000 people – probably a low estimate, given the ongoing fluidity of the situation – sign up as new members. Good for America!